A spider is living in the upstairs hallway.
Clara has named him Frank after Frank Marshall, the director of the film “Arachniphobia.”
She’s a ridiculous film nerd.
Though Clara hates spiders, she seems to have made peace with him.
Here’s what I won’t be telling her anytime soon:
Researchers analyzed 161 spiderwebs and found that spiders incapacitate captured fireflies to attract other potential mating partners to the web. Spiders keep the incapacitated fireflies alive as long as they can glow, but when they can no longer produce light, they are devoured immediately.
It even appears that the spider’s venom makes a male firefly’s blinks look more like a female firefly’s blinking pattern.
The insect world is a terrible, brutal place.
